August 7-8, 2019
Discovery Partners Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Wednesday, August 7th:
| Time | Topic | Speakers |
| 8:00-8:30 | Light Breakfast & Registration | |
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcoming Comments | Don Wuebbles, Amy Ando, Elizabeth Kócs |
| 8:45-9:15 | Keynote Address: Urban Sustainability Challenges & Solutions | Suzanne Malec-KcKenna, Interim CEO, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative |
| 9:15-10:15 | Panel of Municipal Leaders: Water, Energy, & Climate Problems & Different Urban Scales |
Panelists: Cara Bader, Chief Sustainability Officer, City of Chicago; Kevin Burns, Mayor, Geneva, Illinois; Connie Frey-Spurlock, Village of Williamson; Kim Stone, Councilwoman, City of Highland Park, Illinois; Scott Tess, Environmental Sustainability Manager, Urbana, Illinois Moderator: Don Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30-12:00 | Small Group Activity: Prioritizing & Diagnosing Sustainability Challenges | |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00-2:00 | Panel of NGOs & Business Leaders: Role Private & Non-Profit Sectors Can Play in Urban Sustainability |
Panelists: Hilary Pearson, Exelon; Google; Raj Rajan, Inunext; Naomi Davis, Blacks in Green; Steve Frenkel, CURRENT; Nancy Cole, Union of Concerned Scientists Moderator: Elizabeth Kócs, University of Illinois Chicago |
| 2:00-2:15 | Break | |
| 2:15-2:45 | Small Group Activity: Understanding Actors in the Sustainability System | |
| 2:45-3:30 | Panel of Social Science, Arts, & Humanities Scholars: Looking at Sustainability Challenges in Cities of Different Sizes Through the Lens of Arts & Humanities & Human Dimensions |
Panelists: Ladd Keith, University of Arizona; Patricia Romero Lankao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Devin Hunter, University of Illinois Springfield; Mario Longoni, Field Museum Moderator: Anne-Marie Hanson, University of Illinois Springfield |
| 3:30-3:45 | Break | |
| 3:45-4:30 | Panel of Technical, Earth, & Natural Science Scholars: Engineering Perspective to Urban Woes and Potential Solutions Across Scales |
Panelists: Aaron Packman, Northwestern University; Luis Bettencourt, University of Chicago; Alan Hamlet, University of Notre Dame; Xuhui Lee, Yale University Moderator: Ashish Sharma, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 4:30-5:30 | Small Group Activity: Concrete Pathways to Sustainability | |
| 5:30-7:00 | Reception for an Informal Discussion |
Thursday, August 8th:
| Time | Topic | Speakers |
| 8:00-8:30 | Light Breakfast | |
| 8:30-9:00 | Opening Plenary Talk: Best Practices in Engaged Multidisciplinary Research |
Rachel Switzky, Director of the Siebel Center for Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Introduction: Amy Ando |
| 8:00-9:15 | Break | |
| 9:15-10:15 | Large Group Activity: Choosing Steps Toward Sustainability Action |
|
| 10:15-10:30 | Break | |
| 10:30-11:15 | Small Group Activity: Getting to Work on Taking Those Steps | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Small Group Activity: Constructing the Network for Sustained Progress | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Working Lunch: Wrap-Up and Next Steps |